The sublime City Lights was Chaplin’s riskiest and most complicated undertaking, a silent film made just as studios were fully committed to sound. Utilising music and sound effects, it was also a marriage of sentiment and slapstick, the elements of which had to mesh with acrobatic precision. Setting the tone is the opening, in which The Tramp endures a series of self-inflicted run-ins with a gigantic civic monument, a scene that is at once side-splittingly funny, risqué, and beautiful.

Here is one of the perfect movies, as well as the apotheosis of Chaplin’s mix of humor and sentiment… As for the Tramp’s relationship with the blind flower girl, it is one of the most moving in cinema, as direct, funny, and heartwarming a depiction of love as one could imagine.

This deeply eccentric film stands as the purest and most sublime of Chaplin’s masterpieces… Funny, bittersweet, and sensitive on levels that few movies can ever hope to reach, City Lights is one of the definitive romances of the big screen, building from episodic slapstick into one of the most moving endings in film.

One of the most influential film in cinematic history. Effortlessly interweaving slapstick and sentiment while documenting the essence of it's time. It's humour is timeless and something that everyone, upper, middle or lower class can enjoy!

While it has spellbinding moments such as the Boxing match and the ending that always charges my body with pure emotion, I can't quite put it to the same level as Modern Times or The Great Dictator as this film's gag can get repetitive. How many time must they fall in the water or how many times must he get thrown out of the mansion. They are not quite as ingenious as in those films. To me, it's a lite masterpiece.

Rewatching Chaplin film by film. I still laugh harder at his films than any modern comedy. I.E. the scene where he's drunkenly eating pasta but accidentally begins to eat the identical looking confetti which has fallen on his plate. The entire dining sequence is hilarious. As is the boxing match. Chaplin is not just a master of physical comedy, but somehow, he became and remains an archetype for all things human.

A quite overlong addition to the romantic-comedy/gag-comedy style. Despite this silent film still conveying its narrative these genres/audio doesn't ring true. Chaplin may have been a supreme physical actor, but it's odd why the 'megastar' made a dull script silent, as talkies in the cinema were becoming, and City Lights could've had actual depth. It's just a bad game of charades.

One of Chaplin's most unforgettable films and performances: Every scene a secluded little masterwork in its own unfolding on the background of the music, but also embedded in the overall development of the story.

Charlie Chaplin's last true silent film (1936's MODERN TIMES had sound, but not dialogue) is one of his greatest works. As his iconic Tramp character, Chaplin meets a blind flower girl, who mistakes him for a millionaire. Head over heels in love, he sets out to raise the money for an eye surgery that could cure her blindness. A classic romance, w/Chaplin's trademark gentle humor.